Compounding in synthetic aperture imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2054-2065

  Hansen, Jens Munk ^a   Jensen, Jorgen Arendt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; BEAMFORMATION; COMPOUND IMAGES; COMPOUND IMAGING; CONTRAST RESOLUTION; CONVENTIONAL IMAGING; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; DELAY AND SUMS; FRAME RATE; INFORMATION DENSITY; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; LESION DETECTION; MULTIPLE TRANSMIT; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; RESOLUTION LOSS; SINGLE COMPOUND; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

SPECKLE; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCER;

ARTIFACTS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84866720634     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2427     Document Type: Article

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